Software Developer’s Journal
HTML5 & Java Developemnt Gems
Attention! This issue contains very detailed info on:
FLASH MIGRATION TO HTML5
Adobe ColdFusion An Adobe Flex and AIR Hero
by Michael Givens
Adobe ColdFusion has been called a scripting, server-side language, but ColdFusion is actually the web application development platform (a web application server) with Cold Fusion Markup Language (CFML) being the scripting language.
Building a desktop/mobile application with Adobe AIR
by Michael Givens
There are alternative ways to create a desktop application, but as you will see in this article, creating a desktop application with Adobe AIR is one way you should definitely give a try.
Building a web application with Adobe Flex? Really?
by Michael Givens
There are many ways to create a web application, but as of today July 26, 2012, there are still compelling reasons to leverage Adobe Flex to build some of your web applications.
Porting a Flex application to a HTML5 application
by Michael Givens
As a long-time fan of Adobe’s Flex, I am admittedly biased toward Flex (and AIR) development. I will naturally gravitate toward building any web or desktop application with these Adobe technologies (with a splash of ColdFusion [ColdFusion Markup Language or CFML is the tag-based and scripting language that ColdFusion uses] for server-side interactions).
Moving to Adobe Edge
by Chris Gannon
Before we begin I’d like to point out that the title of this article Moving to Adobe Edge is a bit of a misnomer but I’ve kept it to highlight an important point. We as Flash and Flex developers are a versatile bunch – we’re curious and when the need arises we learn new things and when we learn new things we usually add to our skill set. I considered calling it Adding Adobe Edge To The Ever Increasing List Of Tools We Really Should Learn – It’s Not A Replacement – It’s An Excellent Addition but, frankly, it’s a bit wordy but you get the point.
Zen and the Art of Virtual Machine Hindrance
by Ian Beveridge
When I was just a nipper, our family car was driven to the extremity of its lifespan. As it aged it needed more TLC in order to start and get my Dad to his work. He was no mechanic but he knew enough to know which spare parts he needed to find, and had no fear of opening the bonnet, spanner in hand. When he did this, I’d be standing beside him peering into the bewildering metal structure within as he hit the relevant pipe with the spanner, or re-fitted a freshly charged battery.
Flash Professional CS6 and the Toolkit for CreateJS
by Christopher Caleb
The ubiquity of HTML5 makes it the ideal technology for the delivery of rich web-based content across a wide range of devices and platforms. While various JavaScript code libraries and frameworks exist for the benefit of developers, there has been a serious lack of tooling to aid designers wishing to create rich expressive content. This has been particularly problematic for those accustomed to Flash Professional’s powerful illustration and animation capabilities. Just how do you create equivalent content when targeting HTML5?
Writing your first AIR Native Extension
by David Wagner
Despite rumors to the contrary, Flash isn’t dead on mobile. With Adobe’s recent launch of AIR Native Extensions, accessing platform specific features no longer has to move at the pace of Flash runtime releases. Using a little bit of Flash Runtime Extension glue, you can get access to the latest features added by the platform creators long before Adobe include those features in the core Flash runtime.
ActionScript to JavaScript: Finding your feet
by Richard England
Like many Flash developers I’ve found myself (re) turning to the world of JavaScript – or perhaps you could say “HTML5” development. This article contains some selected tricks to help adapt your ActionScript knowledge to further your JavaScript skills. There are many ways of using JavaScript, and many libraries to help you out, so it’s not so bad if you approach it in the right way.
JQUERY
5 jQuery Calendar Plugins that can be used on Websites
by Suprotim Agarwal
Online calendars can be very useful to share and publish your schedules. One of the most common requests I receive from my jQuery readers is for a good, free-to-use, jQuery Calendar control, similar to the Google Calendar, which can be added to a website or blog.
14 Reasons Why Nobody Used Your jQuery Plugin
by Jonathan Cutrell
With so many folks developing jQuery plugins, it’s not uncommon to come across one that just plain – for lack of better words – sucks. There’s no examples or documentation, the plugin doesn’t follow best practices, etc. But you’re one of the lucky ones: this article will detail the pitfalls that you must avoid.
Why You Should Never Use jQuery Live
by Justin Mayer
Event delegation is a powerful technique that is often used in JavaScript applications. jQuery has two similar API methods that provide similar event delegation functionality: live and delegate.
40 Brilliant and Advanced jQuery Effects To Use In Your Websites
by Rocky
Just a while ago, Flash was one of the primary technologies used by web designers to add interactivity to a website. But today, there’s an upward trend seen in the web development world to use alternative technologies to Flash, such as jQuery, Ajax and others.
What is jQuery and How to Start using jQuery
by Sheo Narayan
jQuery is not a language, but it is a well written JavaScript code. As quoted on official jQuery website, “it is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development”.
17 Most Used WordPress Jquery Plugins
by Skyje
WordPress has hundreds of plugins using jquery. I feel jquery + wordpress will be great combination. It make wonderful design. Below you will find 17 Most Used WordPress Jquery Plugins. These plugins are all about efficient simple and spectacular methods of enhancing the functionality of your blog.
Pure CSS3 Spiderman Cartoon in jQuery and HTML5 – Look Ma, No Flash
by Anthony Calzadilla
Searching YouTube for inspiration I stumbled on to the intro of the classic 1967 spider-man cartoon series. While watching I realized that the animation was very basic.
Top 8 reasons why jquery is so popular
by Doris Chen
You’ve read that jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development.
jQuery Username Availability check
by Srinivas Tamada
This is very useful stuff, this is the best way to implement it and the only thing you have to modify just some database connection parameters.
EXTRA
Integrating Solr with .net
by Deepak Rohilla
While I was developing an application where business needed to search in millions of documents inreal time I started to integrate Solr with my .net application. In starting due to less information present for .net and solr integration I faced problems, but finally successfully achieved the goal. So here I’m putting everything needed in single article.
Firemonkey – Styled Lists
by Paul Foster
Hopefully most of you reading this will be familiar with the firemonkey beast supplied in the latest and greatest Delphi release – XE2. To summarise, it’s a vector drawn UI framework not dissimilar to the Windows Presentation Foundation (in premise anyway, not in practice I feel).
Table of languages
by Nick Coghtlan
How to add a Custom Pinterest Button to your Website?
by Jeremy Mansfield
In the following article, you will quickly learn how to globally integrate the “Pin It” button on every page of your website. You’ll need to have a basic understanding of html and know how to edit your html in a CMS Editor.
INTERVIEW
Interview with Daniel Sperl
by Christopher Caleb
Daniel Sperl is the creator of the Starling Framework. An open source, pure ActionScript 3 library that recreates Flash’s display list architecture on the GPU. Starling runs in the browser and on all major mobile platforms including iOS and Android.

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